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•The Associated Press is reporting that an Iowa family is suing Supervalu and a canned vegetable manufacturer, Lakeside Foods, because they say they fund a snake’s head that was the size of a golf ball inside a can of green beans.

The family is claiming mental anguish.

• Thanks to the MNB user who sent along a story from the BBC saying that a store in Aberdeen, Scotland, has been dealing with an unusual shrink problem.

There’s this seagull that walks into the store when the door is open, grabs a bag of Doritos – always the same brand and flavor – and then carries them outside, where the bag is ripped open and shared by a number of other seagulls.

The process has become so popular that local folks have started paying for the Doritos so that the seagull can't be locked up for shoplifting.
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